Football: Bangor 'wary' of Caersws; WELSH PREMIER.Byline: By KEITH EVANS CARL LAMB, whose late winner against Newtown swept Bangor City into the Welsh Cup The Welsh Cup is a knock-out football competition contested annually by teams from Wales. The Football Association of Wales is the organising body of this competition, which has been run (except during the two World Wars) every year since its inception in 1877-78. quarter-finals, is unavailable for the clash with Caersws today. And Clayton Blackmore's City will be wary of a backlash by the mid-Wales visitors whose own cup ambitions were shattered in a shock home defeat by Cymru Alliance The Cymru Alliance (currently the Huws Gray Cymru Alliance, for sponsorship reasons) is a football league and forms the second level of the Welsh football league system in north and central Wales. outfit Llangefni Town last week. Winners at Caersws in early season by a resounding re·sound v. re·sound·ed, re·sound·ing, re·sounds v.intr. 1. To be filled with sound; reverberate: The schoolyard resounded with the laughter of children. 2. 6-0 margin, Bangor are favourites to complete their first Welsh Premier double, but Blackmore will demand that the players are totally focused. He said: "When we played at Caersws, they did well early on and created several chances, but then everything we hit went in to give us an excellent result". Right-winger Kenny Burgess misses out for City while University striker Mike Linnecar is included. "With the Premier Cup having gone and the league title beyond us, we can now concentrate on climbing the league ladder and a major priority is the Welsh Cup," added Blackmore. Caersws' Hugh Clarke will miss today's clash with Bangor with a hamstring, injury, writes John Bridgwater. The only downside of their battling 1-1 draw with Port Talbot in midweek was the late dismissal of midfielder Geraint Lewis for two bookings which means he will miss the trip while Neville Thompson and Sean Jehu are also sidelined with injuries. |
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